http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik&feature=player_embedded
The FULL, UNEDITED video. Yeah, these guys looked really threatening the way they were standing in the street talking to each other. And the people in the van that came by a few minutes after these horrible threats to human decency were gunned down...well they were stupid enough to be driving in an UNMARKED (oh, the horror) and made the mistake of 1) living in a city that has turned into a warzone and 2) stopping to help people who have only a few minutes earlier been shot to pieces.
It’s all there on the video.
Really? Unedited? You mean the on-board video system on the Apaches put the WikiLeaks commentary into the video like that? And it put those handy little markers to identify the journalists, but didn't put similar markers to identify the AK-47s or the RPGs? And when you watched the FULL, UNEDITED video, you didn't notice the CREDITS at the end? Of course this FULL, UNEDITED video only picks up in chapter two and doesn't include the call from the troops on the ground asking for air support upon being ambushed. Do you work for WikiLeaks?
Carrying AKs and RPGs in a war zone makes you a valid target. If you are walking around with these personnel carrying weapons, you are a stupid valid target. If you are doing these things while in combat against US forces, you are a dead, valid target. You would no longer be stupid however, because the US military brings a schooling that is not forgotten!
Yeah. What’s also on that video is some were armed with AKs & RPGs (see my link just above). What’s NOT on the video is the activities which brought a gunship to the location scrutinizing locals for suspicious armed activity - Apaches don’t just circle ‘round random groups looking for the slightest excuse to off ‘em.
And yes, living in a war zone is hazardous to one’s health - whether you go to the war zone or the war zone comes to you.
At exactly 03:45;05 You can see one of the guys turn and display an ROG held in trail. There was also a rifle diplayed in the same sub group.
You need to use better tools to look at the video.
You are hereby exposed as completely ignorant of the facts.
Hang in there FRiend... I saw multiple counts of murder too. They get extra credit for murdering that unarmed, wounded reporter flopping around on the ground, but may have points deducted for only wounding the kids. Not sure though - they did try to see to it that the kids died from their wounds by turning them over to the Iraqi police instead of taking them to a US hospital.
I live near an army base. Going to think long and hard before I take my guns out to the back of my property to do some shooting - there may be Apaches flying about.
I'm a white male Christian gun owning military vet Ron Paul supporter - apparently about the only kind of person "our" gov't thinks is lower than an armed Iraqi walking around his extremely dangerous neighborhood.
Of course, if the army murders me, I'm sure the official army spokesperson will say that the brave helicopter pilot took out a dangerous, armed right-wing militia member. That'll make it OK.
Maybe you should check this out:
Case Closed: Weapons Clearly Seen on Video of Reuters Reporters Killed in Iraq
Regardless of what the very large tubular object being carried by one of the men is, (you can only see the top of the tube moving across the bottom of the screen), the man in the very center of this screen capture (light colored shirt) that turns around and tries to conceal what he is carrying is VERY CLEARLY carrying an RPG launcher with the RPG loaded and ready to go. He tries to shield it from view with his body, but it is very clear what he is carrying. The heftier man behind him (in the striped shirt) is carrying an AK-47 rifle. Even if civilians might carry guns for self-defense in this area; you can't seriously argue that this guy with the RPG is just an innocent civilian standing in the street talking to his buddies.
More info at the Jawa Report.
Bleeding heart, liberal, panty waste sleeper agent detected?
Frankie,
Please check out the 2:05 - 2:24 time frame on the video you linked to. You will notice that this segment has a nice, easy to see video of a guy carrying then loading an RPG while another guy with an AK stands next to him. At the 19:21 mark the Bushmaster team clearing the area can be heard discussing an unexploded RPG grenade under one of the bodies.
I know that you WANT this to be a tape of innocents being killed so that you can continue to stoke the fires of anti-American rage burning in your heart but the fact of the matter is that this was a good and necessary shoot.
